OVH to establish North American headquarters and first U.S. data center

pbgben

https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=17975

RICHMOND – Governor Terry McAuliffe announced today that OVH, the leading cloud provider in Europe, will invest $47 million to establish its North American headquarters and first U.S. data center in Fauquier County. The company will install dark fiber infrastructure in an existing facility in the Vint Hill Business Park. Virginia successfully competed against North Carolina for the project, which will create 54 new jobs in Fauquier County.Governor McAuliffe and other Virginia officials met with OVH leadership during a June 2015 trade and marketing mission to Europe.

Zeast

@pbgben said:
https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=17975>;

delete >;

belinik

https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=17975

fixed

GCat

@Zeast said:

@pbgben said:
https://governor.virginia.gov/newsroom/newsarticle?articleId=17975>;

delete >;

What's more concerning is the page didn't spew out an error message and left the blank template...

JustRefleX

Hmm near by washington? Was expecting a datacentre in Dallas or so tbh

jiggawatt

JustRefleX said: Hmm near by washington? Was expecting a datacentre in Dallas or so tbh

Hint: there's incentives from the Commonwealth of Virginia involved

pbgben

Fixed the link, not sure how I manged that...

hostnoob

Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

pbgben

@hostnoob said:
Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

Cheeper for them to fun darkfiber from BHS Site :P

Microlinux

@hostnoob said:
Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

I kind of doubt OVH really cares about "location", I think the "attributes" of any given location are more important for their model.

xaoc

@hostnoob said:
Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

Weren't they adding Singapore for Asia?

Shoaib_A

@xaoc said:

@hostnoob said:
Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

Weren't they adding Singapore for Asia?

Its already being built I think:

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/783930468995596288

mailcheap

As for Asian DCs expect an announcement sometime in 2017.

MikeA

@hostnoob said:
Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

They are also expanding to Portland (west coast) and Singapore, Sydney.

rm_

Meh, so boring, they already had a perfectly fine North American datacenter in BHS. And with the entire NSA debacle, US is the last place anyone should ever want to host in.

Microlinux

@rm_ said:
Meh, so boring, they already had a perfectly fine North American datacenter in BHS. And with the entire NSA debacle, US is the last place anyone should ever want to host in.

You're under a delusion if you don't think every capable country in the world has a dragnet the same as the NSA, or aspires to have one.

jesin

@Shoaib_A said:

@xaoc said:

@hostnoob said:
Hmm would have thought they would pick a western US location to appeal to Asia a bit, and they already have an east coast location (kind of)

Weren't they adding Singapore for Asia?

Its already being built I think:

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/783930468995596288

Octave has shared pics of their Singapore DC - https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/781139835021123584

mailcheap

@rm_ said:
Meh, so boring, they already had a perfectly fine North American datacenter in BHS. And with the entire NSA debacle, US is the last place anyone should ever want to host in.

The NSA got way too much press in the Snowden leaks. GCHQ and MTI are just as bad if not worse; not to mention CA, AU, NZ are all part of the five eyes. If someone is doing something illegal a court order in any country of presence will have to be followed. At least with Oles there's hope that there won't be any direct tapping going on in his DCs. So the only way to make sure your data isn't illegally tapped by mass surveillance is to use TLS or similar encryption for all data transmitted/accessed through the internet.

spitz

Is this the end for many moms and pops low end providers?

UrDN

This company has become too big.

cpaquette

Local news website has more details, including the location is a "former Army base, which had specialized in electronic eavesdropping for about 50 years" before closing in 1999.

http://www.fauquiernow.com/index.php/fauquier_news/article/fauquier-cloud-computing-giant-coming-to-vint-hill-2016

sin

Nice, right in my home state.

arpanjot

eagerly waiting for Singapore .their peering to India isn't good

BrianHarrison

@Microlinux said:

@rm_ said:
Meh, so boring, they already had a perfectly fine North American datacenter in BHS. And with the entire NSA debacle, US is the last place anyone should ever want to host in.

You're under a delusion if you don't think every capable country in the world has a dragnet the same as the NSA, or aspires to have one.

^^ This.

pbgben

@BrianHarrison said:

@Microlinux said:

@rm_ said:
Meh, so boring, they already had a perfectly fine North American datacenter in BHS. And with the entire NSA debacle, US is the last place anyone should ever want to host in.

You're under a delusion if you don't think every capable country in the world has a dragnet the same as the NSA, or aspires to have one.

^^ This.

That, and the fact that the NSA works closely with other agencies to monitor overseas objects of interest, too.

pbgben

Chinese are just as bad as the > @mailcheap said:

@rm_ said:
Meh, so boring, they already had a perfectly fine North American datacenter in BHS. And with the entire NSA debacle, US is the last place anyone should ever want to host in.

The NSA got way too much press in the Snowden leaks. GCHQ and MTI are just as bad if not worse; not to mention CA, AU, NZ are all part of the five eyes. If someone is doing something illegal a court order in any country of presence will have to be followed. At least with Oles there's hope that there won't be any direct tapping going on in his DCs. So the only way to make sure your data isn't illegally tapped by mass surveillance is to use TLS or similar encryption for all data transmitted/accessed through the internet.

And keep away from WiFi -

raindog308

hostingwizard_net

spitz said: Is this the end for many moms and pops low end providers?

Not at all. At least if you mean LE VPS providers (just look at the situation in Europe).
OTOH, it will certainly put some pressure on the LE datacenters.

UrDN said: This company has become too big.

I disagree. (no argument needed :P )

pbgben

@hostingwizard_net said:

spitz said: Is this the end for many moms and pops low end providers?

Not at all. At least if you mean LE VPS providers (just look at the situation in Europe).
OTOH, it will certainly put some pressure on the LE datacenters.

UrDN said: This company has become too big.

I disagree. (no argument needed :P )

How many providers have their own gTLD?

MikePT

pbgben said: How many providers have their own gTLD?

They paid for it.

Harambe

Anyone got an idea when these will be online? I'm guessing 12-18 months if they haven't started the build yet?